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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

JONATHAN BARKER'S PENSION FILE2

Benjamin Barker's testimony confirmed that of his brotherand Joseph Jackson:

"I Benjamin Barker of lawful age do testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Jonathan Barker and knowing to his serving as a private Soldier in the Revolution was againstthe common enemy in the continental establishment in the eight months servis and knew him to Serve the full term in Capt John Davis' Company and Col James Fry's Reg in Massachusetts lineI being in the same company with him atthe time and know that the said J Barker entered said servicein April AD 1775 and I also know that the said J Barker entered into the nine months service in June AD 1778 in Capt Samuel Carrs' Company and Col James Wesson's Regt and General Learned's Brigade in said line and served as a private soldier the full term of nine months as last mentioned I being in the same company with him at the same time and knowing to his being honourably discharged the said last term was on the Continental establishment as afore said.Benja. Barker

OxfordOn the 22nd day of May AD 1818The aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned andsworn agreable to law to the truth of the above Depositionby him subscribed taken at the request of Jonathan Barkerand by virtue of a Dedimus potestatem to me directed fromthe Hon Albion K Parris Judge of the United States for theDistrict of Main to be used in said court now holden atParris within said District I have reason to believe theabove statement being aquainted with the deponent.James Eames Justice of the Peace"

So, having obtained Benjamin Barker's testimony on hisbrotherJonathan's behalf, James Eames returned to thecourt and Judge Parris ruled on Jonathan Barker's petition:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICAMAINE DISTRICT, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on thetwenty fourthday of April in the year of our Lord, one thousandeight hundred and eighteen, personally cameJonathan Barker the applicant named in the papershereunto annexed, and after being duly cautionedand examined, made oath that the severalstatements by him made in the annexed application,signed in my presence, are. wholly true.

And the said applicant offered in evidence the affidavit of Joseph Jackson, made and signed in my presence; and thedepositionof Benjamin Barker, taken before James Eames,a respectable magistrate appointed by Dedemus for thispurpose, both fellow soldiers with said applicant in therevolutionary war, all which are here unto annexed.

And it appearing to me in the examination herehad, that the several persons above named arecredible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexeddeclarations as evidence, and certify the same asbeing satisfactory proof to me that the said JonathanBarker the applicant, served as a private soldier in therevolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months in continuation on thecontinental establishments. And I do further certify,that from the declaration of the applicant madebefore me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appearthat in consequence of his reduced circumstancesin life, he is in need of assistance from his countryfor support; all of which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress,passed March 18,1818, entitled "An Act to providefor certain persons engaged in the land and navalservice of the United States in the revolutionarywar."

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set myhandand caused my Official Seal to be affixxed theday and year first mentioned.

Albion K. Parris

Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine."

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1 comment:

He would have been in Wesson's 9th Massachusetts, Learned's Brigage, but joined the year after the regiment was in the siege of Fort Schuyler and the Brigade played a prominent role at Saratoga(Bemis Heights). However, the Col. Wesson was wounded at Monmouth Court House in New Jersey on June 28th. Perhaps your ancestor had joined the regiment by then.